Le King Slot – Free Demo

Thirty positions, no paylines

Le King is a 6-reel, cluster pays slot. That frame holds 30 symbol positions at once. It's on a 6x5 layout with no paylines at all, playable on all devices from 0.10 to 100 credits per spin. I ran it at 6.00 a spin from a balance of 5,000.00.

Coins, Clovers and the Neon Rainbow that switches them on

On the layout you will find the Coins. Each Coin carries its value on its face, so what is sitting on the grid can be read before anything activates it. They come in Bronze, Silver and Gold and are worth up to 500 times the stake apiece, and the spots behind a winning cluster turn into Golden Squares. An activated square can reveal a Coin, a Treasure Pot, either Clover, or a Jackpot Marker. These sit there inactive until a Neon Rainbow symbol lands and triggers every one of them in view. To compensate for the waiting around, the so-called Green Clover has been added, and when landing it will multiply any Coins and Pots next to it by x2 to x20. That is what spin 479 was: a Green Clover multiplying the Coins beside it, for 90.60, or 15.1 times the stake. The Gold Clover does the same for every Coin and Pot in view. A Treasure Pot collects the cash value of all Coins in view, and of other Pots. On spin 296 that collection paid 198.00, 33 times the stake.

Moving on to the pays and arrangement of the layout. It needs some clarifying of its own, and there are no lines here at all: a win is 5 or more matching symbols touching each other horizontally or vertically, anywhere in the 6x5 frame. 150 of my 480 spins paid something under that rule, and half of those paid less than the 6.00 stake. Winning symbols are then cleared and fresh ones drop in from above. Each clear leaves Golden Squares behind it, which is how spin 458 assembled itself before a Neon Rainbow activated them for 294.00. So a single spin can chain on for several rounds before it steadies, and it is a bit tough to grasp until you actually play the game. Think of it more as one large heap of symbols rather than the six reels you see inside the frame.

Spin City, Jackpot of Gold and Viva Le Bandit

3 or more Free Spins symbols trigger the free spins. How many you land determines which of three bonus games you get: 3 grants you Spin City, where the Golden Squares remain highlighted until something triggers them. Spin City is also sold outright, at 80 times the stake. 4 grants you Jackpot of Gold, where they remain highlighted even after activation, and 5 grants you the concealed Viva Le Bandit, with a Neon Rainbow on every spin and Coins that are always Silver or Gold. Viva Le Bandit shares its name with Hacksaw's Le Bandit. All three award 10 free spins. Jackpot of Gold is the other one that can be bought, at 250 times the stake. 2 additional symbols during the round add +2 spins while 3 add +4. Two cheaper purchases sit below those: 3 times the stake for spins five times more likely to trigger a bonus, and 60 times the stake for spins that guarantee a win and a Neon Rainbow.

Four jackpot tiers that need a Rainbow to pay

The real cash is in the Jackpot Markers. They either land on the layout or turn up inside a Golden Square, and they pay out when a Neon Rainbow triggers them: Mini 10x, Major 100x, Mega 1,000x and the Max Win at 20,000 times the stake, one of each at most. The ladder on screen shows them in credits rather than multiples, so at a 6.00 stake it reads 60, 600, 6,000 and 120,000. This is the sole way to land the max win, and in 480 spins I never triggered a single Marker, so not one of the four levels paid. Viva Le Bandit and its guaranteed Rainbow never came up either, because no trigger landed more than three symbols. The three bonuses I did see were all Spin City on three symbols, none of them retriggering. The first was spin 113, the second 88 spins later, the third 115 spins after that. Together they yielded 416.40 credits, which was 19% of everything I won. Two of them ran alongside a base-game win on the same spin, 4.20 on spin 201 and 2.40 on spin 316.

The Minty Breakdown: Every prize above a cluster win in this game waits on the same symbol, and across 480 spins the Neon Rainbow found three Spin City rounds and no Jackpot Marker at all, so the top four prizes on the ladder stayed decoration. 416.40 credits of the 2,140.80 I won came out of the bonuses. The next session's question is what the guaranteed Rainbow in Viva Le Bandit does to that, and five Free Spins symbols is the only way to ask it.

Where 480 spins left the balance

It's hard to keep track of what's going on with the Squares, the Coins, the Pots and the Clovers. The values printed on the Coin faces are the one part of it you can read at a glance. My 480 spins returned 74.3%, the balance never once rose back above the 5,000.00 credits it started with, and the largest hit of the lot was 49 times the stake. 2,880.00 went in, 2,140.80 came back, the low point was 3,956.60, and the longest run without a win was 12 spins.